Search and Replace... tried everything, no luck, think it's quite simple!

Hi Guys,
I'm trying to do some editing on many many html files. As it wouldn't be realistic in the slightest to do it manually I'm trying to use the search and replace feature in DW, but it's proving quite difficult. I've looked at everything available on this forum and others with no luck.
So I'm trying to replace a huge block of code, but as the code is different in all the files I have to use the wildcard. So I match up the code at the front and the block which is the same in all the files I'm trying to change and insert [^"]*. For example, if I wanted to change the meta content I search for:
<meta name="description" content="[^"]*" />
It doesn't find it.
The other blocks of code are much bigger and it's the same story. If I copy the code in which I am looking to replace (without the wild card) and search it doesn't find it, but if I click off 'use regular expression' it does find it, so this leads me to believe that it may be something to do with the special characters that is in the code that I am trying to replace, but I am unsure how to go about excluding these..
Any help much appreciated,
Brian

I'm the very first to admit that I STINK at Reg Ex. It's a totally foreign language to me.
Whenever possible, I use the Search Tag with Attributes feature.
So let's say you need to find all meta tags that contain attribute "name" & the content is different in each one.
Find In: Current document (to test)
Search: Specific Tag         meta
With Attribute                      name = [any value]
Action: Set Attribute          content   to: type your new values here....
Replace All.
Hope this helps.
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